Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b74bf1f724d80f37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-27 18:42:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c6919c54042ab49919624105393c81fc SHA-1: 72f0333b03b3efe56b9bc7c54df458c444f9f03f SHA-256: b74bf1f724d80f37ebd57dea465845e6995619b807915dc7c0b8921c637bfec2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this file is part of a phishing or scam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/53776336982.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/di56jp4u4ni8k902rc7e8hpmeo/10829548356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c79f7bb18a---83619760486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831a01a09a7---xavupefanoririboke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/42631481514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3efb76518c---binokobuxovevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609670130deec---36748906253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/pujezip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/20127828260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/210701040759602648n3rfxvo7p7kt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fb9967c9f---kovujakajizunarutik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosettes.it/userfiles/file/12812954445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a38b0be9a1370f1a86497c927edbc1cb/kidup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ijqave86b2cve5b8fsd8f09rnd/lirivofaxanelebumepas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/digipigipixet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160990f7b7111d---51461044530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ragaxubudinonilunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975420bfc49c24fe6b4b4759de26f631/81422162014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regiefranchet.fr/userfiles/files/52867853618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/72707293414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1986r1e7j7qujb43k5cfnbm5a/80929029621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/talitawibezinobaxitupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=m3+data+recovery+similar+softwarePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10301 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 090de503d09ff9f6b2084cb9a95708318781d624548b8741e2649a37f83203ce
font_01_sfnt_off00011c91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C91 16936 bytes
SHA-256: 6e75780fc7505bd50dab3a9b9b3ca4a3b4748be93b0d62ca21ba44bea97dcedb
font_02_sfnt_off000148c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1